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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 21:53:58 +1000
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"Colin Paul Gloster" <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> wrote in message 
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| I met someone today who described himself as "an ordinary FORTRAN
| programmer" who advocated C for the practical reason that libraries
| are designed for C. He claimed that small tasks are good for multicore
| and large tasks are good for GPUs.

I think you will fnd that libraries are also designed for Fortran.